At a time when every one else despaired of saving stores, cannon, provisions, or property of any kind, and a privateer was moored across the mole-head to prevent all boats from passing, he sent word to the committee, that if the slightest opposition were made to the embarkment and removal of British property, he would batter the town down.

Had Jason invested there, as he purposed doing at the time of his embarkment, he might have sunk all that he possessed -- which was little enough to float, as one would think -- and then Maud might have tended her rose-garden and carried fruit-offerings to the sweet-faced nuns till she was gray and limping, for all Jason's fine notions of independence -- namely, a good income from the rise of stocks in the